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So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia

So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia

Elofson, Warren

Paperback

Business GeneralAustralia & OceaniaCanadian History

ISBN10: 1552387941
ISBN13: 9781552387948
Publisher: Univ Of Calgary Pr
Published: Jun 24 2015
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centers on both the natural and frontier environments.

There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases, corporations were heavy investors and utilized an open range system in which tens of thousands of cattle roamed over thousands of square acres. Ranchers shared similar problems such as predators, disease, and weather, as well as markets. Ultimately, a nearly indistinguishable country culture developed in these geographically disparate and distant lands, which is still apparent today.

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